Sikhumbuzo Dube

Several times, individuals have sought my pastoral and spiritual care when I was suffering deep emotional pain. In their need for help, people will often go to pastors who are themselves burdened with their own struggles. To compound the…

A couple of years ago, a nine-year-old girl asked me a question I had never expected.

“Pastor,” she asked, “where is your child? I have never seen her.”

Being involuntarily childless, I responded, “We are still praying that God…

Spiritual care is a vulnerable calling. It is ministry to the wounded by the wounded. The deep-seated wounds of a minister can indeed be a wellspring of strength for those to whom he or she ministers. There is a Talmudic legend of the Messiah…